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Most people think of college when they think of the G.I. Bill, but thousands of the veterans were doing their "studying" on the job in factories, and thousands more had gone back to high school. There was still another vast group of G.I.s who had found themselves adrift in the deep-too old to go back to high school, anxious for college training but not sufficiently schooled...
...where audiences prefer their comedians pathetic. Turned 51 last week, Keaton had just finished his first Mexican picture, hoped soon to make another. He looked about the same as ever, and so did the picture: The Modern Bluebeard, or My Trip to the Moon. It had everything from life-adrift-at-sea to mistaken identity and ordeal by cops...
...would be criminal madness to cast [the secret of atomic power] adrift in this still agitated and un-united world. ... I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and some Communist or neo-Fascist state monopolized . . . these dread agents. The fear of them alone might easily have been used to enforce totalitarian systems upon the free democratic world, with consequences appalling to human imagination. . . . Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organization," the secret could be shared...
...Secretary-Generalship. Britain floated the Eisenhower rumors in an effort to head off a fight between its own candidate, Canada's quietly competent Ambassador to the U.S., Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, and Norway's Lie, who might again be supported by Russia. Poland set adrift a rumor for Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace...
Captain Eddie (20th Century-Fox) leaves ex-ace Rickenbacker (Fred MacMurray) and his companions adrift in the Pacific without food or water, to enlarge on the reasons for his certainty that they will be rescued, and his statement: "My whole life has been mixed up with machines." From time to time, the film returns to the castaways and ends with their rescue, but it is chiefly concerned with Rickenbacker's life up to World War I. About his exploits in that war, and his career between World War I & II, it is very sketchy. But what it has chosen...